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...time - received 78% of the vote. And on Feb. 27, an election date not exactly selected to encourage turnout in the Windy City, he is likely to do just as well. "With every election, Daley wins with higher margins and lower turnouts," says Jay Stewart, executive director of the Chicago-based Better Government Association. Even if his percentage slips a bit, one thing he won't change is his opposition to campaign debates. Daley doesn't engage in them because, plain and simple, he doesn't have to. The result is a generation of young Chicagoans who have never seen...
...alas, an axiom of politics in Illinois - and especially Chicago - that voter tolerance for bribery, kickbacks and other stinky political practices is extremely high, as long the trash is picked up on time. And since the mayor himself has been indicted on nothing, he strides on, overseeing everything from public housing and education to the details of an ongoing beautification initiative. It helps that some of his most unpopular moves, like his unilateral decision to demolish a small lakefont airport in 2003 under the cover of night, seem nearly forgotten. Meanwhile, he has accepted blame for not having...
...brief moments last year, Richard M. Daley actually looked vulnerable heading into his current campaign for a sixth - count 'em - term as Chicago's mayor. Four of his closest aides, included his patronage chief, were convicted last summer on corruption charges, while a federal probe of the city's hiring practices continued. Around the same time, a court-ordered investigation detailed an elaborate torture ring operated - and later covered up - by high-ranking Chicago police officials from the 1970s until the '90s. What's more, in an unprecedented show of defiance, the city council broke ranks with the mayor, passing...
Former chiefs of other colleges—including Gray, who led the University of Chicago before joining Harvard’s board, and former Princeton President Bowen—are telling search committee members that Cech would be the right man to head Harvard in the wake of the Summers-Faculty fight, according to an individual familiar with the conversations...
...advised Obama to become a Supreme Court clerk. Obama recognized the honor in pursuing that post, Wilkins said, but quickly added that he wasn’t interested. “He said that he wanted to write a book about his life and his father, go back to Chicago, get back into the community, and run for office there. He knew exactly what he wanted and went about getting it done,” Wilkins said. “He was the kind of person who you knew was destined for greatness.” Obama announced his presidential...